On 22.3.2005, at 17:45, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
Eggert Thorlacius wrote:
I feel like my question suffered a hostile takeover from another thread :-) So in an attempt to get back to the original topic: does anyone think that a weekly "stable" tag would be a good idea?
Not necessarily. Abritrarily marking a particular point in time as "stable" is probably not effective. I think the other proposals in the thread about branching out the release line and applying critical patches to it would give a stable branch without the risk of the stable tag applying to something not really stable. As it stands, mythtv CVS is very stable a great percentange of the time. I run CVS all the time in my house and have really no issues with it related to comitted patches. Then again, I watch the commit list, keep up on the dev discussion, and know when something got checked in that is likely to break things.
I agree that branching would be a lot better, but my suggestion was aimed at increasing (preceived) stability for users with practially no overhead for the developers. It was not meant to be a fool-proof guaranteed-to-be-stable strategy. However, if everyone thinks it is a dumb idea, I don't really care. I'm personally quite happy with the way things are now. It was just a suggestion.
Eggert
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